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      "describe subgroups",
      "distinguish later uses of the name"
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      "Arian Christianity initially",
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      "Gothic architecture and the goth subculture borrow the name only"
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        "quantity": "end of Visigothic kingdom",
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        "note": ""
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      "Ostrogoths and the kingdom in Italy",
      "Moesogoths settled in Moesia under Wulfila",
      "Crimean Goths",
      "Goths in the Chernyakhov and Wielbark archaeological cultures",
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        "why": "in registry terms"
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        "relation": "spoke",
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        "Fabricate quotations or sources from Gothic history.",
        "Damage or trade artefacts from Gothic sites outside lawful channels."
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        "Germanic peoples have been used in nationalist and racist myth-making.",
        "Archaeological sites are a shared heritage that looting destroys."
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        "Students and the public",
        "Communities near heritage sites"
      ]
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      "steward": "Nobody owns a historical people; museums and heritage authorities hold the finds.",
      "master_systems": [
        "Museum collection catalogues",
        "National heritage site registers"
      ]
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                  }
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                    "text": "What do Jordanes, archaeology and modern scholarship say about Gothic origins, with positions attributed?",
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                  },
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                    "text": "Which sources are cited?",
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                    "text": "How did the Goths interact with Rome, from the Danube crossing and Adrianople to the sack of 410?",
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                    "text": "Which entry fits the specific event?",
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                    "text": "How did the Ostrogothic and Visigothic kingdoms rise and fall, as historians describe?",
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                    "text": "Which entry fits the specific kingdom?",
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                    "text": "What is known of the Gothic language from the Wulfila Bible and Crimean Gothic?",
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                    "kind": "action"
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                    "text": "How did the Goths adopt Arian and then Nicene Christianity, and what law codes did they leave?",
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                  {
                    "text": "Which references are standard?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
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                "id": "legacy-finding",
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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How have the Goths been remembered and claimed in Spanish, Swedish and other national histories, with attribution?",
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                    "text": "Is the presentation neutral?",
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                "id": "name-finding",
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                  {
                    "text": "How did Gothic come to name an architectural style, a literary genre and a subculture?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits the specific later use?",
                    "kind": "action"
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    "Should Visigoths and Ostrogoths be separate primary entries?",
    "How should archaeological and textual sources be linked?",
    "The registry entry has merged aliases naming subgroups; should they be split off?"
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